Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk from Nunatsiavut. She is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal and the Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement, as well as an independent curator of Inuit and other Indigenous arts. Heather's research centers on Native North American visual and material culture, circumpolar art studies, performance and media art, the global exhibition of Indigenous arts and culture, and issues of colonization, sovereignty, resilience and resurgence. Some of her recent publications related to this work include the catalogue Inuit Art. The Brousseau Collection (2016) and essays in Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada (2014); Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism (2012); Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 (2012); Curating Difficult Knowledge (2011); and Inuit Modern (2010). Igloliorte's recent curatorial projects include the

nationally touring exhibition SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut, which opened at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in October; the co-curated night festival iNuit blanche; the permanent exhibition Ilippunga: The Brousseau Inuit Art Collection at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (2016); and Decolonize Me (Ottawa Art Gallery, 2011 - 2015). Igloliorte served as an Executive Member of the Board of Directors for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (2005 - 2011) a as the President of Gallery 101 (Ottawa, 2009 - 2011); and on the Indigenous Advisory Council of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (2013 - 2016). She serves on the Editorial Advisory Committee for Inuit Art Quarterly; on the Board of Directors for North America's largest Indigenous art historical association, the Native North American Art Studies Association; and was recently appointed to the Faculty Council of the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York.